delving into ebook readers

[William Muriithi]

Morning
>
> A4 is a European standard, and it's a bit taller and narrower than North
> American 8.5x11" Letter.
>

Hmm, A4 is not European, its the world standard.  Only north American don't
use it, just like they ignore every other metric units

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4_paper


> Any attempt to render a document into a set page size becomes an exercise
> in fail the moment you let an electronic copy cross the Atlantic, or
> really get out of your hands at all.
>
> (A possible compromise is to render to a virtual size as wide as A4 and
> 11" tall, and let the document have a silly excess right margin here and
> bottom margin over there.  But reflowable documents are better.)
>
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